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Spirited drivers, canyon carvers, and modified import enthusiasts take note...
If you are into spirited driving, canyon carving, or import tuning? A surprise awaits in your Los Angeles County voter guide...on page 6.
This measure seeks to increase the tax expected to pay for consumer goods by 6%, colored as the "Los Angeles County Public Safety, Emergency Response, and Crime Prevention Measure."
That's right...Ponch and Jon want to raid your wallet some more to help pay for their time sitting in the dark on a lonely two lane road after midnight with their instant-on K band radar guns.
Oh, so you're against cops and for the criminals you say?
Sit up straight and read closely: there is a lot more beneath the surface of this smokescreen.
The real reason they want this measure passed is hidden in the fine print:
"...expand community policing."
In other words...victimless crime. What is victimless crime? Speeding, passing over double yellows, illegal tint, etc. Don't be deceived; not a single cent is going to go where it is really needed. Have you driven around after hours? Cops are tripping over each other around here. They're chillin in parking lots with their buddies or they're somewhere lights out in the middle of BFE awaiting the next lonely sap to come barreling down the road (for those who read my blog - see www link at the bottom of my post - check out the post on 9/24 about my V1 saving my arse).
Not a single damn cent of this tax will go to fire, search and rescue, education, road maintenance and repair, etc., where the resources and funding are really needed.
Ponch and Jon want it both ways: the revenue stream from the local kangaroo traffic courts and forcing a burden on every citizen in the county so that they can buy more toys themselves in hopes of snatching more motorists. If they really wanted to improve crime prevention, terrorism response (yeah right), etc., they should reconsider what they're doing with their resources. Setting up a speed trap on a light-traveled road under a full moon isn't exactly my idea of community policing.
Measure A only seeks to reward the inefficiency of the system by unnecessarily burdening the taxpayer further. With California in a deep fiscal mess the writing is on the wall.
Sadly, the uninformed will flush what they read here down the toilet and blindly vote for this bureaucratic bull**** on the premise of "homeland security." Don't reward the police departments for their incompetence and inefficacy.
They need to work with what they have.
If you drive spiritedly on the back roads? If you drive around in your tricked out import? The police want to raise your taxes so that they can send more henchmen after your cohort. If this measure passes you'll certainly be feeling the effects of it.
ON NOVEMBER 2, VOTE NO ON MEASURE A.
If you are into spirited driving, canyon carving, or import tuning? A surprise awaits in your Los Angeles County voter guide...on page 6.
This measure seeks to increase the tax expected to pay for consumer goods by 6%, colored as the "Los Angeles County Public Safety, Emergency Response, and Crime Prevention Measure."
That's right...Ponch and Jon want to raid your wallet some more to help pay for their time sitting in the dark on a lonely two lane road after midnight with their instant-on K band radar guns.
Oh, so you're against cops and for the criminals you say?
Sit up straight and read closely: there is a lot more beneath the surface of this smokescreen.
The real reason they want this measure passed is hidden in the fine print:
"...expand community policing."
In other words...victimless crime. What is victimless crime? Speeding, passing over double yellows, illegal tint, etc. Don't be deceived; not a single cent is going to go where it is really needed. Have you driven around after hours? Cops are tripping over each other around here. They're chillin in parking lots with their buddies or they're somewhere lights out in the middle of BFE awaiting the next lonely sap to come barreling down the road (for those who read my blog - see www link at the bottom of my post - check out the post on 9/24 about my V1 saving my arse).
Not a single damn cent of this tax will go to fire, search and rescue, education, road maintenance and repair, etc., where the resources and funding are really needed.
Ponch and Jon want it both ways: the revenue stream from the local kangaroo traffic courts and forcing a burden on every citizen in the county so that they can buy more toys themselves in hopes of snatching more motorists. If they really wanted to improve crime prevention, terrorism response (yeah right), etc., they should reconsider what they're doing with their resources. Setting up a speed trap on a light-traveled road under a full moon isn't exactly my idea of community policing.
Measure A only seeks to reward the inefficiency of the system by unnecessarily burdening the taxpayer further. With California in a deep fiscal mess the writing is on the wall.
Sadly, the uninformed will flush what they read here down the toilet and blindly vote for this bureaucratic bull**** on the premise of "homeland security." Don't reward the police departments for their incompetence and inefficacy.
They need to work with what they have.
If you drive spiritedly on the back roads? If you drive around in your tricked out import? The police want to raise your taxes so that they can send more henchmen after your cohort. If this measure passes you'll certainly be feeling the effects of it.
ON NOVEMBER 2, VOTE NO ON MEASURE A.
Thanks for the heads up Alpha!
